Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1
(Post 3803160)
how retarded am i to come to this place seeking career advice.
here goes.
i've played guitar since i was 16, and for many years kind of thought someday i'll get serious and form a band and shit. but, as life went on i saw that regardless of how good i am (and i wasn't bad at all), chances for success, surely one that would make me a living, were extremely scarce... so i went to study what i thought was the next best thing, which is sound engineering (hold on to the unemployment jokes please). studied that for two years, got an internship in the best studio around. got virtually abused there, and for no good reason. more than anything else, i was a lackey, and although they liked me and wanted me to stay and even suggested that i'd record a low-profile record by myself, i kind of saw where it was going, which was nowhere, and i still wasn't getting paid a penny for 10-12 hour days (this is about 3.5 months time) so i just said fuck it and moved on. worked a couple sound-guy jobs and lately, been unemployed for like 2-3 months. the unemployed sound guy, so embarrassing :(
anyway throughout all this time i was (and am) constantly questioning if sound engineering is even the right thing for me to do with my life... i mean, you have to chase a gig after gig after gig. some guys can handle that but i can't, really. im piss fucking poor, i can't afford this, i need some security. besides, it's one thing to make your own songs sound awesome, and a whole other thing to do various tiring chores that are mostly grey and unrewarding.
anyway my frantic searching for a job blew up in my face time after time and now all at once i've got two places willing to hire me and they totally collide with each other.
i take the red pill, i stay in the sound business, i go to work in the Big Brother broadcast control room, pay is good, it's an 8 minute drive to there from my house, but the show ends in 3 months and essentially i have to rely on my bosses being so pleased with me, that they'll give me another job in one of their studios.
i take the blue pill, i go work for Intel, 4 days a week with 12 hour shifts (working in the clean room as an operator) and having four days off. pays better. about a half hour drive away. more 'secure' and stable. but also it feels like selling my soul to a bunch of procedure-following nutsacks.
im fairly sure i won't be working in the sound field in 10 years anyway, but i do feel like i've only been out there a year, haven't really given it a real shot, and this is the first REAL job i'm being offered, and that could promote me (then again, it could also get me nowhere. life's playful like that).
with Intel i'll be able to get promoted if i do my job well and stay long enough, I think. it's much more secure, it pays great and overall conditions are excellent. the job itself, being an operator in the fancy clean room, is not so fancy though... but i suppose it's manageable, like any other job.
^ i know this is serious tldr material right there but i am so deep in this i can't really see things straight. maybe one of you guys has a better perspective.
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